Magnus Egerstedt
Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering UC Irvine
- Irvine CA
Magnus Egerstedt is a leading research on control theory, complex networks and robotics.
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Biography
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award
2017
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Distinguished Mercer Lecturer
2016
RPI, Rochester, NY
Creating the Next Award for Innovation and Impact in Robotics
2017
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
2018
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award
2019
American Control Conference
Education
Stockholm University
B.A.
Philosophy and Linguistics
1996
Royal Institute of Technology
M.S.
Engineering Physics
1996
Royal Institute of Technology
Ph.D.
Applied Mathematics
2000
Affiliations
- IEEE (Control Systems and Robotics & Automation Societies) : Fellow
- International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) : Fellow
- IEEE Control Systems Society : Vice President for Member Activities
Links
Media Appearances
IROS 2024 Concludes In Abu Dhabi, Drawing Record-Breaking 10,000 Participants
Day of Dubai online
2024-10-26
Dr. Magnus Egerstedt, Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, delivered the closing plenary session on ‘From Coordination to Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems,’ providing insights into advancements in multi-robot coordination inspired by ecological models.
National Academy of Engineers names two UCI professors as new members
UCI News online
2022-02-10
Magnus Egerstedt, the Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering, said, “With the election of these two faculty members, the UCI Samueli School is now home to 16 National Academy of Engineering members. It is a true testament of the research expertise and impact of our professors’ dedication to solving problems that benefit society.”
From Sloths to the Soul of UCI
UCI News online
2022-02-09
On a vacation with my family in Costa Rica a few years ago, I became fascinated with sloths – not because they were cute and cuddly but because I simply could not understand how such slow (and potentially quite tasty) animals could exist in an environment populated by jaguars and eagles. Their leisurely, low-energy lifestyle is somehow a viable survival strategy shared by pretty much all arboreal folivores (tree-dwelling leaf eaters) due to the dueling requirements of being big enough to break down and digest the complicated leaves, yet small enough to reside successfully among the treetops.
What We Are Reading Today: Robot Ecology by Magnus Egerstedt
ARAB NEWS online
2021-12-29
Robots are increasingly leaving the confines of laboratories, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities, venturing into agriculture and other settings where they must operate in uncertain conditions over long timescales.
A Year, Alone, In the Trees
Georgia Institute of Technology online
2021-07-01
SlothBot, a robot that monitors pollution, temperature and other environmental conditions, survives for 13 months in the tree canopy of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Magnus Egerstedt thought his robot would survive a few months. That was the goal when he and his team of Georgia Tech College of Engineering students installed their three-foot SlothBot in the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s tree canopy in May of last year.
Event Appearances
“Coordinated Control of Multi-Robot Systems for Persistent Environmental Monitoring”
Séminaire Fédération Charles Hermite, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
2017-06-22
“Long Duration Autonomy And Constraint-Based Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems”
Swedish Automatic Control Meeting Stockholm, Sweden
2018-06-19
“Long Duration Autonomy And Constraint-Based Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems”
ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Atlanta, GA
2018-10-03
“Long Duration Autonomy And Constraint-Based Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems”
International Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Shenyang, China
2019-07-22
“Forward Invariance in Robotics: From Coordinated Multi-Robot Systems to Safe Learning”
IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems Bangkok, Thailand
2019-11-18
Patents
Wire-Traversing Robot and Method of Operation
US20220009532A1
2022-01-13
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a robot comprising a body, a processor, and a memory. The memory further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the body to engage a first wire to support the robot from the first wire, traverse the first wire, engage a second wire simultaneously while engaging the first wire, the second wire branching from the first wire, then after engaging the second wire, disengage the first wire and traverse the second wire.
Articles
Resilient Monitoring in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems Through Network Reconfiguration
IEEE Transactions on Robotics2021
We propose a framework for resilience in a networked heterogeneous multirobot team subject to resource failures. Each robot in the team is equipped with resources that it shares with its neighbors, which are identified based on the team’s communication graph. Additionally, each robot in the team executes a task, whose performance depends on the resources to which it has access.
Data-Driven Robust Barrier Functions for Safe, Long-Term Operation
IEEE Transactions on Robotics2021
Applications that require multirobot systems to operate independently for extended periods of time in unknown or unstructured environments face a broad set of challenges, such as hardware degradation, changing weather patterns, or unfamiliar terrain. To operate effectively under these changing conditions, algorithms developed for long-term autonomy applications require a stronger focus on robustness.
Collective Motion Planning for a Group of Robots Using Intermittent Diffusion
Journal of Scientific Computing2022
In this work we establish a simple yet effective strategy, based on intermittent diffusion, for enabling a group of robots to accomplish complex tasks, shape formation and assembly. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach and rigorously prove collision avoidance and convergence properties of the proposed algorithms.
Coverage Control of Mobile Robots With Different Maximum Speeds for Time-Sensitive Applications
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters2022
This letter presents a coverage control algorithm for robots with different maximum speeds to effectively cover an area in terms of time of travel. In order to utilize the different speeds of the robots, the region of dominance of a robot is approximated by the set of points where the robot can arrive faster than any other robots in the team by cruising at its maximum speed.
Composition of Safety Constraints for Fixed-Wing Collision Avoidance Amidst Limited Communications
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics2022
This paper considers how to ensure that a system of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can avoid collisions. To do so, a novel method is developed for creating a barrier function, which is similar to a Lyapunov function and can be used to ensure that a system can stay safe for all future times. After introducing the general approach, it is shown how to ensure that collision avoidance for two vehicles can be guaranteed for all future times.
